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Note: This tutorial is appliable for iRedMail-0.6.1 and earlier versions. If you're using iRedMail-0.7.0 and later versions, please refer to this tutorial.

Summary

When amavisd detects a spam email, it logs a message to its log file by default. It can also quarantine the email and/or notify an administrator. It can then generate a bounce message to the sender. Finally, it can either accept and deliver the message, or discard the message. Many different configuration variables are involved in these decisions.

Integrate MySQL in Amavisd

We have to integrate MySQL in Amavisd first. Please follow steps in this tutorial:

Configure Amavisd

Enable spam quarantining in Amavisd. Make sure you have below settings in /etc/amavisd.conf (RHEL/CentOS/OpenSuSE) or /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user (Debian/Ubuntu) or /usr/local/etc/amavisd.conf (FreeBSD):

Testing

SpamAssassin ships a sample SPAM mail, you can use Outlook/Thunderbird/Mail.app to open it and send it to your local user, it should be blocked. and you will find similar message in log file (/var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log):

If you set $spam_quarantine_method = 'local:spam-%i-%m';, quarantined emails are stored under /var/virusmails/, and you can release this mail with command amavisd-release, it will resend this email to recipient:

If you set $spam_quarantine_method = 'sql:';, SPAM mail will be stored in mysql database amavisd.quarantine, you can release it with telnet (port 9998), it's useful to release it via web front-end (You can find detail in MySQL table: amavisd.quarantine):